A Manchu Grammar: With Analysed TextsPrinted at the American Presbyterian mission Press, 1892 - 52 pages |
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absi accusative affix adjectives Adverbs age elder brother ahun anggala ba place baita beye bimbi boode house bumbi cihai dabala damu final particle foll formed by adding gaimbi geli gemu genembi to go genitive affix gisurembi to speak gucu friend hūlambi hulambi to read Indef inenggi day interrogative inu yes jacin jergi jimbi JUNIOR juwan juwe majige little Manchu gisun word Manchu language Manchu Literature mangga difficult manju Manchu gisun mini musei mutembi ndara ngge niyalma oci Cond ombi participle Past Gerund postpos Postpositions Pret Preterite Pronouns sain seci Cond sembi to say seme Inf SENIOR sere Fut serengge stem Subj syllables tacimbi to learn tanggu tembi to sit Tense tere thou translate tumen Tungusic tuttu tuwambi urse uthai uttu Verbal Noun 21 verbs vowel harmony vowels waka weci بحجر جير حتي خير سير مصر مير وحصر ور يا
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Page 17 - SENIOR. So I hear you are studying Manchu, eh ? that's right . Manchu is with us Manchus the first and foremost of essentials; it is to us, in short, what the language spoken in his own part of the country is to a Chinese; so it would never do to be without a knowledge of Manchu, would it ? donjici, Condit.
Page 31 - If you glow for one day and are cold for ten days in your study, you may read for 20 years, but it will come to nothing.
Page 36 - Bead some Manchu every day, and talk incessantly, until the habit of speaking comes quite naturally to the mouth.
Page 11 - Taking in order the parts of the paradigm arambi to write 1 will now explain each form. 1. The stem is ara which at the same time serves as the Imperative: ara write ! 2. By adding mbi we obtain the Present Tense : ara—mbi I write (there being no distinctic of persons, this stands for I, thon, he, we, you, they write).
Page 18 - Manju and learn to translate, I shall have broken down at both ends of the line.
Page 38 - If I had been aware that you lived here, I should have called before.
Page 37 - I have been to visit a relation of mine who lives down yonder.
Page 31 - »->» > 1 ; • * t t (>• as a matter of course, you will be well on your way.
Page 8 - Pekingese pf| |*J tea men) we that are speaking together, we that belong to one family, one clau, one nation.